Voice recognition system controls everything, hopefully won’t kill us.
[Aaron Bitler] and [Bud Townsend] have been working a natural user system that is, in their own words, “what android@home should have been.”
The video they posted is pretty impressive. The automation system responds to voice and can control appliances, ‘throw a party’, and provide a user with their location. This is just the foundation of a system that can be built upon -*developers**can easily integrate a microphone and speaker into a device so it can connect to the system’s server. Apps, too, are pretty*extensible – they’re registered on the server with meta tags that provide a wealth of data to be manipulated. It’s a very, very cool project that we really want to try out.
After seeing the video, the first thought was to go through every episode of Star Trek collecting recordings of [Majel Barrett's]*speech. [Douglas Rain] is still alive (and still sounds like HAL), but we’d probably go with GLaDOS. If our house is going to kill us anyway, we’ll go with the one that will give us some blog cred.
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Filed under: home hacks, Software Development
[Aaron Bitler] and [Bud Townsend] have been working a natural user system that is, in their own words, “what android@home should have been.”
The video they posted is pretty impressive. The automation system responds to voice and can control appliances, ‘throw a party’, and provide a user with their location. This is just the foundation of a system that can be built upon -*developers**can easily integrate a microphone and speaker into a device so it can connect to the system’s server. Apps, too, are pretty*extensible – they’re registered on the server with meta tags that provide a wealth of data to be manipulated. It’s a very, very cool project that we really want to try out.
After seeing the video, the first thought was to go through every episode of Star Trek collecting recordings of [Majel Barrett's]*speech. [Douglas Rain] is still alive (and still sounds like HAL), but we’d probably go with GLaDOS. If our house is going to kill us anyway, we’ll go with the one that will give us some blog cred.
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Filed under: home hacks, Software Development